Senators elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, are yet to find a common ground, less than 24 hours for the resumption of the Senate.
The Punch reported today that the senators are still wrangling over the sharing of the remaining posts in the senate.
Worse, the Senator Ahmad Lawan group is now accusing the Bukola Saraki group of plotting to make President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration fail.
“The election of a Peoples Democratic Party senator as deputy senate president is evidently a grand conspiracy to sabotage the Buhari government,” spokesperson for the pro – Lawan group, Senator Kabiru Marafa, said in an interview with Punch.
Marafa argued that the inauguration of the 8th Senate and subsequent election of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, with 57 senators in attendance was an indication that the perpetrators of the act actively involved the management of the federal parliament.
Lawan loyalists in the Senate, under the Senate Unity Forum, said on Sunday that the election of Ekweremadu was a grand conspiracy to sabotage Buhari’s administration through the legislature. The Saraki supporters style themselves Like Minds Senators.
Both Lawan and Saraki groups had on Friday disagreed on how the principal officers of the Senate should be chosen.
While the Lawan group aligned with the position of the APC leaders that the party should choose the officers, the Saraki group insisted that the Senate officers should be picked at zonal levels.
Read more in The Punch: http://www.punchng.com/news/senate-saraki-lawan-groups-rift-deepens/The senate president had teamed up with senators of his former party, the PDP